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Well, the Mrs. and I enjoyed a great ride on Sunday, although it was a "chilly" ride as a cold front jump on Colorado Saturday night!!
We headed out Hwy. 24W. to the hamlet of Hartsel, CO. and picked up Hwy. 9S. This is a road of constant sweepers and altitude changes. I know it's not really a pure sportbike road but for the ole 80 GS1100E, it's perfect! Luckly for me, the wife loves to go fast (ok, fast as I can go, LOL) we were running 30 to 50 mph. sweepers at 80+ (Note: I have the old "safety speedo" during the days of 55 mph. on Interstates, the speedo only shows a max. of 85mph.)since there wasn't any bikes on the road, I played cat and mouse with a little Honda sport car for 70 miles, good fun wicking it past the car in the sweepers!
Don't have quite the excelleration riding "double up" so at times he'd pull me in the straights but even with late 70's/early 80's tech., the GS1100E would leave him for dead in the tighter sweepers!
After Hwy. 9 came to a end, it was back home on a high traffic road so we just got into "tour mode" and as usual in June/July in Colorado, we got rained on entering Colorado Springs, LOL. A real nice day!!
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BJ Ondo, "Old Fart"
Colorado
1980 GS1100E Suzuki
"The 1980's Hyabusa"
We headed out Hwy. 24W. to the hamlet of Hartsel, CO. and picked up Hwy. 9S. This is a road of constant sweepers and altitude changes. I know it's not really a pure sportbike road but for the ole 80 GS1100E, it's perfect! Luckly for me, the wife loves to go fast (ok, fast as I can go, LOL) we were running 30 to 50 mph. sweepers at 80+ (Note: I have the old "safety speedo" during the days of 55 mph. on Interstates, the speedo only shows a max. of 85mph.)since there wasn't any bikes on the road, I played cat and mouse with a little Honda sport car for 70 miles, good fun wicking it past the car in the sweepers!
Don't have quite the excelleration riding "double up" so at times he'd pull me in the straights but even with late 70's/early 80's tech., the GS1100E would leave him for dead in the tighter sweepers!
After Hwy. 9 came to a end, it was back home on a high traffic road so we just got into "tour mode" and as usual in June/July in Colorado, we got rained on entering Colorado Springs, LOL. A real nice day!!
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BJ Ondo, "Old Fart"
Colorado
1980 GS1100E Suzuki
"The 1980's Hyabusa"